I have decided to do my observation at the Bloomsburg REC center. For the first 15 minutes of my observation I sat on the stationary bike to watch everyone. One thing that I noticed while sitting on the bike was that the gym was basically separated into two sides as the girls were on the side with the treadmills and elliptical machines while the guys where all at the weight lifting machines. In my head I tried figuring out why the gym was so separated like this so I came to the conclusion that guys and girls have two different goals while at the gym, guys want to get bigger muscles maybe to impress the ladies and girls want to just stay in shape and who knows maybe they do it for the guys. After the 15 minutes was up I made my way over to the water fountain that was by the door to finish off my observation. While I was standing at the water fountain I watched this couple that were using the weight lifting machines, at least they looked like a couple, and the guy seemed to be teaching the blonde girl what to do and what not to do. After about 10 minutes of that couple working out on the machine the girl went over to a treadmill and started to get her cardio in. When my observation was over I thought to myself what does all of this mean about college life and I have concluded that everyone was there for a reason whether it was to reach a goal, or maybe they wanted to impress someone, or they could have been doing it for themselves, who knows maybe they were there because they pay for the gym so they thought they should use it but everyone was there with a purpose.
I have decided to do my observation at the Bloomsburg REC center. For the first 15 minutes of my observation I sat on the stationary bike to watch everyone. One thing that I noticed while sitting on the bike was that the gym was basically separated into two sides as the girls were on the side with the treadmills and elliptical machines while the guys where all at the weight lifting machines. In my head I tried figuring out why the gym was so separated like this so I came to the conclusion that guys and girls have two different goals while at the gym, guys want to get bigger muscles maybe to impress the ladies and girls want to just stay in shape and who knows maybe they do it for the guys. After the 15 minutes was up I made my way over to the water fountain that was by the door to finish off my observation. While I was standing at the water fountain I watched this couple that were using the weight lifting machines, at least they looked like a couple, and the guy seemed to be teaching the blonde girl what to do and what not to do. After about 10 minutes of that couple working out on the machine the girl went over to a treadmill and started to get her cardio in. When my observation was over I thought to myself what does all of this mean about college life and I have concluded that everyone was there for a reason whether it was to reach a goal, or maybe they wanted to impress someone, or they could have been doing it for themselves, who knows maybe they were there because they pay for the gym so they thought they should use it but everyone was there with a purpose.